Generating Diagnostic Tests

In the Assignment Book, diagnostic tests can be helpful when students have objectives that are in the Intervene state. They also allow you to test students on objectives without requiring students to meet the objectives' practice requirements (mastery criteria) first.

Go to your Assignment Book and choose your school and/or class (and group if necessary).

On the Home page, click Accelerated Maths, then Assignment Book. In the Assignment Book, if you have access to more than one school, use the School drop-down list to choose a school. If you have more than one class, click the Class drop-down list and choose the class for which you want to generate assignments. If you want to generate diagnostic tests for a specific group, select the group from the Group drop-down list.

If you see an Install Plug-In link

This page may include a message in red text to notify you that you do not have the plug-in you need to print directly. If this message appears and you plan to print directly to the printer without previewing, click Install Plug-In link and download and install the Renaissance Place Print plug-in before you continue. Then, go back to the class Assignment Book.

Tick the box next to each student who needs a diagnostic test. If you want to generate diagnostic tests for all students in the class, you do not need to select students before you go on to the next step.

Click Generate Diagnostic on the left side of the page.

Click the Assignment Format drop-down list and choose whether the assignment should be online or paper.

For paper assignments only, click the Answer Format drop-down list on the next page and choose assisted-response (multiple-choice) or free-response problems. (If you choose free-response, an answer key will be generated with the assignments.)

How your choices affect marking options

Online assignments:

Online assignments are marked automatically when students log in and complete them. These assignments are assisted-response only.

Free-response diagnostic tests can be marked manually by teachers. Teachers can also mark free-response diagnostic tests by scanning with AccelScan if they mark "A" for each correct answer and "B" for each incorrect answer. Free-response diagnostic tests cannot be marked using Renaissance Responders or NEO 2 or by students who log in to the software.

If you are generating diagnostic tests for more than one student, click the Problem Generation drop-down list and choose whether students should get identical assignments or individual (unique) ones. If you choose identical assignments with free-response problems (for paper assignments only), click the Free-Response Answer Key drop-down list and choose whether to generate just one answer key for all students or one for each student.

Next, tick the box for each objective that you want to include on the diagnostic test.

Tips if you selected more than one student

Tick the boxes that are at the intersection of the objective columns and the student rows. To choose an objective for all students, tick the box next to the objective number at the top of the column. (To see the objective description and library, position your mouse over the objective number. You can also scroll through the list of objective descriptions.)

How to find other objectives in the list

Only some of the objectives in the list will be shown. Click to go to the next group of objectives, to go back one group, to go to the last group in the objective list or to go to the first group. You can also use the drop-down list in the middle of the arrows to choose a specific group of objective numbers.

You can also search for specific objectives by clicking , entering key terms and clicking Search. The list will be limited to the objectives that matched your search. To see the full list again, click Show All.

How to see the standards related to objectives

Click . Click it again to hide the standards.

How to see sample problems

Click next to an objective description to see sample problems for that objective.

Notice that this page uses symbols to show you the status of each student's work on each objective. To see the name of a symbol, position your mouse over the symbol or click Legend.

Note: If you have reached your student capacity limit for Accelerated Maths, this page will notify you and will show you which students cannot receive assignments.

Click Generate.

Online assignments will be generated immediately. You will return to the Assignment Book. You can view a student's online assignments when you click the student's name and go to the Student Detail page.

Paper assignments will either be sent to the printer or will open in Adobe Reader.

If you generated paper assignments, by default, the assignments will print directly to your default printer. Click Done when printing is complete.

If you have chosen to preview assignments using the Paper Assignments preference, the assignment(s) will appear in an Adobe Reader window. To print the assignment(s), click the printer button in the row of Adobe Reader buttons. (In Adobe Reader X and XI, the Adobe Reader buttons may be hidden until you move the mouse over the bottom center of the document or press F8.)

Note: If you want to print assignments double-sided, and your printer is capable of duplex printing, use the Paper Assignments preference to enable duplex printing.

You can also generate diagnostic tests starting from the Intervene page. This is helpful for students who have objectives that were marked Intervene during testing.